The number houses

The number houses help children work on the additive decompositions of numbers from 1 to 10 and complements to 10.

Wooden material:

Introduce your child to maths in an intuitive way with the Montessori Number Houses.

Designed for children aged 4 and over, this set helps to isolate and discover every possible combination of the numbers from 1 to 10, using a visual and tactile approach.

The wooden cards are colour-coded to match the coloured Montessori beads, making it easier to learn and recognise the numbers. Children can use these houses together with the bead bars and the number cards.

An educational material for maths workshops in early primary classes, used to practise additive decompositions and complements to 10 in a fun and instructive way. The house-shaped structure of each card makes this game visually appealing and helps anchor the basic maths concepts in young learners' minds.

Montessori activities use concrete symbols to introduce each new concept to the child. This system teaches children to grasp the concept of number before moving on to the abstract level of written numbers. This approach reinforces the purpose of the Number Houses. They act as a tool, together with the coloured bead stairs, to isolate every possible combination of numbers from one to ten.

The goal is for the child to master the sequence of the bead stairs from one to ten, isolating every possible number combination to form each individual number. The next step is to introduce addition. The concepts of equality, addition and its inverse, subtraction, then follow.